Webcam Not Working. Alienware M17X, Intergrated Webcam.

Recently my webcam has just stopped functioning. This laptop is brand new however and I just got it on the 14th.

I have no clue why it wont' work anymore. I checked under device manager and under Imaging devices its called "facap, FastAccess Video Capture".

I enabled it, for some reason it had become disabled, and it wouldn't work. And it seems no Driver updates are available. Also have tried reinstalling the driver but it didn't work. I then uninstalled the old driver and tried to install the driver and it failed. So I used Windows Restore Point feature thing. Now its just disabled.

I wanted to add that I am having the same problem. I just got my M17x yesterday. I was originally able to use the webcam for AlienSense and for a video chat on Windows Live Messenger. However, the webcam just stopped working and I'm not sure why. I did also notice the facap, FastAccess Video Capture was disabled. Tried enabling it with no success. AlienSense, when attempting to access the webcam, says there are problems and it cannot display anything. Hopefully someone in the forum might have an idea about what has happened!

see it didn't work for me when i go into you cam and when i manually turn on the camera in divice manafer as stated in the first post all i get is a rainbow screen like you get on your t.v. when they are doing one of those tests or its off the air.

Tried that, ran the diagnostics at start up everything passed. Then told me to restart so I did. I don't know about the last half of what that link's post says to do. The fn+f9 combo doesn't work, I just hear the error sound and nothing happens even with the youcam program running. All I get are the rainbow of bars. Hmmm.... so I'm stuck at the moment.